Metropolis! Fucking awesome! Geez, I need to own that... Tezuka fucking rocks. LONG LIVE ASTROBOY! Oh, and this is absolutely adorable, of course n__n

Yay! Glad you think so!

I also highly reccomend buying the DVD (and the soundtrack!) since it's just one of those films you need to watch a buncha times to full process.

A friend of mine up and bought the dvd a few years ago. That's when I first saw it and I've been hating myself ever since then for not getting my own copy. Someday, it WILL happen

EEEEEEEEEBAAAAAY!!!

Damn that is an awesome pic. I believe you about how much effort that background took, that thing is mesmerizing.

Thanks! After I drew the initial background lines at five-pixel width over my original Tima/Gadget lineart, I had to split it up into three parts (because it was too complex to select otherwise), then figure out how to get from 180 to 240 (on my color wheel). I used the fill tool to make everything 180 (the really super light blue), then filled in one of the three sections with 195, cut that section, filled in the white space with 180, pasted the 195 section back on, and moved it up five pixels. I did that five times, each time making the top section darker, cutting it out, filling it in the next lightest color, then pasting the darker section just above it so the colors would look like they were smoothly darkening. I wanted to get a neon effect. I had to do this five times each for each of the three sections, and it crashed a whole buncha times while I was doing it. Finally, I cutted and pasted the original Tima/Gadget lineart from another window where I had it stashed safe onto the newly-created background. After that, all I had to do was go in and draw all the shadows and change the line colors on the figure. Whew!!

If you actually read all that, you deserve a cookie.

Daaaaamn that's a lotta work! Oh well, at least I get a cookie. *nom nom nom*

Started at 3:17, finished at 12:14 the following day. Yee-ikes.

Oh Come ON! Metropolis was nothing more than a bad knockoff of the original movie - and worse it made so little sense and had no real connecting characters... it was just cute android lovins...

Fie on you! A pox on thy house! Shows what you know; Tezuka had never actually seen the movie before he wrote the manga. Admittedly, he *was* inspired by the movie poster. And if it didn't make sense to you, it's probably because you tend to miss a lot of the nuances of a film when you watch it with your head Shoved Up Your Ass.

*giggles* Okay, that was really mean and I'm sorry. But how could I possibly resist such a great comeback!? Oh, snap! ;)

I love the comeback. That being said it's actually VERY similar in concept and in the overall scope to the original movie as well as storyline. Problem is the version that became anime and manga was completely based around some very odd thing when it was really the commentary on the working-class (and in Tezuka's, robot-class) revolution.

Certainly true, and Tezuka's manga and Rintaro's movie are pretty darn different in a lot of ways. For starters, Rocks not even in the manga and Tima is a boy! Since the manga's theme was respecting life in all forms, even robots, and the Fritz Lang movie was about class struggle, I think Rintaro and Otomo tried to combine elements of both.

You can't possibly dispute that the soundtrack was awesome though. I dare you!!

Cute pic!

I remeber I wanted see Metropolis after seeing a movie poster but since it was released in limited theatres, I never got the chance to. Better put this on my DVDs I need to see list.

Indeed! And AVOID VHS!!! This is animation so jaw-droppingly detailed you should watch it on DVD on the biggest TV you can find.

cute pic a good Crossover idea

Now can you do Startrek or Wal-mart Gadget next please?

Wal-mart Gadget!? Further explanation requested!

*uses finger to push glasses up on his nose nerdily*......."Cosplay." The term is "cosplay."
And the Japanese word for cocking your head cutely to the side is "El Pueblo"

Wonderful job. I love those bunchy pants.

Actually, I went with crossover since it's really a merging of the two characters. Notice Gadget has Tima's android eyes?

'El Pueblo'? I am doubting your words, sir.

And thanks! I'm terrible at drawing fabrics usually!

Sorry. Sometimes if I use enough words I can trick people into believing that I know what I am talking about. Until recently I thought "cosplay" was a kind of bird.

Seriously though, everything about this pic is pretty awesome.

Thanks!

And beyond cosplay, there's kirigami, which entails wearing full-head anime girl masks, which can be kinda creepy.

oh by Wal-mart Gadget i mean what if she worked at a Wal-mart

i actually benn working at on since i was 17 im 22 now

Hmmm... Can you point me to any good reference pics of the uniform? I can't seem to find any on Google.

read your new PM from me

Hehehehehe Well it's been FOREVER! but im still useing a friends comp >.> oh well at least im able to coment from time to time still.

I have never seen the anime you mentioned Alex, wich is sad since im a huge anime fan I guess I better hunt it down.


Anyway, this pic has attacked me with cute rays on a level im sure is baned by galatic law, better have that looked into. ~_^

Metropolis is pretty easy to track down. It's at virtually any video store.

And thanks! I often charge my cute rays overnight just in case.

Awesome movie. Awesome art.

Glad to hear you like both! I don't run into many Metropolis fans.

I'm surprised you haven't seen more fans, since that movie was, indeed, very cool.

So cute, I love Tima ^w^